Linus Torvalds on NVIDIA -- "F**k you!"

[zridling]

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[Renegade]

BEAUTIFUL~! I love it~!  

I'll remember that the next time I need to buy a video card.

[zridling]

** sorry, wrong links to the wrong topic. **

[Mark0]

   

[mouser]

I've never been a huge fan of Linus and especially his attitude when giving talks, but you have to appreciate someone who isn't afraid to speak his mind.

[Mark0]

I find interesting the part where he explain a bit him being blunt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA&feature=player_detailpage#t=2111s

[zridling]

He makes a lot excuses for being a jerk, though. Critical honesty is one thing, but he has no filter toward other programmers.

[SeraphimLabs]

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEyMTc

Mainly because NVIDIA refuses to provide proper open-source drivers for their high end GPUs, a limitation that is absolutely crippling adoption of Linux for gaming applications.

Rather interesting article actually.

For those of you who don't know who Linus Torvalds is, he's the guy that created the first Linux Kernel.

[Josh]

http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=31337.0;topicseen

[Renegade]

zridling beat you to the punch, but 100% thanks for posting!

http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=31337.msg291117#msg291117

Last time I buy NVIDIA period. Just don't care anymore. They want to **** with freedom, well, my free cash won't bother ****ing around with them.

[Tinman57]

  Yeah,

zridling beat you to the punch, but 100% thanks for posting!

http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=31337.msg291117#msg291117

Last time I buy NVIDIA period. Just don't care anymore. They want to **** with freedom, well, my free cash won't bother ****ing around with them.

  Yeah, that's sad too.  I've always used nVidia based cards since I came to the PC.  I plan on going to Linux in the next couple of years, so I'll probably wind up having to buy another GPU...